The Commoner roI. i. No. 31. Lincoln, Nebraska, August 23, 1901. $i.oo a Year A Strange ''Moulding Force." a .General MacArthur's official report hai' "been jaade public, and conveys the impression that Ifter all we have not completely subjugated 10 Filipinos. General MaoArthur says that the attitude of the people who have declared or peace, and that of the leaders of the federal arty must not bo attributed "entirely to unre- lerved pro-Americanism." It would be unsafe, So General MacArthur thinks, "to assume the ronservative forces as constant factors, the friendly operation of which can be relied upon Irrespective of external influences." General MacArthur makes it very plain that Ithe forces of neither the army or the navy .should be reduced. Ho gives us a word of hope when he says: "In due time and beyond any question, if beneficial republican institu tions are permitted to operate with full force, tithe Filipino people will become warmly attached fto the United States by a sens...

pw!3 Commoner. man fights for the millions of dollars belonging i;o tho plutocrat -which is now exempt from tax ation. - , "Second I would make the principal issue of the campaign of 1904 stern and unyielding, opposi tion to the trusts and syndicates which are now crushing out individual enterprise of the country. 3 Ten years ago a young man with $15,000 or $20,000 'capital could start in some legitimate business 'with fair chance of success, but now he has no ; more chance against the trusts and department ' stores than an Infant against the champion prize lighter of the world. I was told recently by a prominent broker of New York Citya very earn est republican that nine men in New York, four of whom, J. Pierpont Morgan, George Gould, John B; Rockefeller and James J.. Hill, control the finances of the United States, and, as he expressed it, no onov could go into a new enterprise or re main' In an old one without the consent of these nine men. "Third 1 would declare against Imperial...

The Commoner. he generally understood that in the struggle , Rtween an empire and a republic, the sy Ea rthy of this government is with the empire id against the republic. And no representa tive of this administration would be permitted Kb do any act that might be construed as show- g a friendly feeling for the South African uichmen who are struggling in defense of mstitutional government, who are fighting in ehalf of a republican form of government, fwho are battling against the encroachments of ten empire, who are sacrificing their lives and Rheir fortunes in defense of their homes. The administration need not bti alarmed lest confidence will be given to the rumors that any representative of this administration has done anything distasteful to Great Britain, or iauy thing in the interest of peace, or anything fcthat might indicate a friendly feeling for the -republicans of South Africa. It is, indeed; humiliating to many men and Kwomen in the United States that their country ds pl...

The Commoner. misstatements concerning the property they -hold subject to taxation. Every community inr the United States suffers because many of its citizens have fallen into the bad habit of making a deliberate misrepresentation to the tax assessor. Two remedies suggest them solrea for this evil: One is the persistent cul trvation of a public sentiment that will frown upon misrepresentations of this char acter that will condemn tho tax dodger to a discreditable position. The other is tho elec tron to the office of tax assessor of a man who 'will make no discrimination' between individ uals but who will use every effort to have all property listed for taxation, and to expose any man, high or low, who adoptd the roll of the fax-dodger: Both remedies ought to be em ployed. w Children Not Burdensome. Alderman "Wente and Mrs. Wentz of Brooklyn, have given their names to fame and have set an admirable example to those people who are inclined to regard children as burdens. Alderman and M...

The Commoner, Shanklin's Letter, Tke following letter from the pen of that sran Democrat and editor, Hon. John Gil- srfc Shanklra of Indiana, will Imj refreshing to lose who helievo in honesty and courage in olitics. It was addressed to the Indianapo- Scntinel; To the Editor Sir: The discussion which lias E;jeuu uuiiuu out uy me inuyusuiuu luul uiuivwuwiu hjm a dead and buried issue, at least for the present, Iprovcs how Ineffectual are pronunciamentos not ikwthorized by a party convention. Until the dele gates of the people, duly chosen in conformity Lwith established usage, shall again meet to formu late a platform the one last adopted must stand las the law of the party. We may have our opinions as to its utility and have a perfect right to ad vance them as individuals. But no man has a right fto assume that his ipse dixit disposes of a measure hvhich was seriously discussed at the last conven- ition and adopted, even "by a majority of one, as an official expression of those havi...

.ftyrxte o 6 The Commoner, ISSUED WEEKLY. William J. Bryan. Editor and Proprietor. " . Term Payable la Advance. 0n Year $i.e fix Month...;. Three Month Single Cepy At Newitanda or at this Office $ Sample Copies Pree. No Traveling Canvassers are Employed. Subscriptions can be sent direct to The Com moner. They can also be sent through newspapers which hove advertised a clubbing rate, or through precinct agents where such agents have been ap pointed. All remittances should be sent by postoffice order, express order or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps, or money. Advertising rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMAIONER, Lincoln, Neb. Etttcicd at the postoffice at Iincoln, Nebraska, j second class mail matter. It is well to make note of the fact that the mvy bureaucrats are doing most of the flutter ing. Senator MoLaurin is entitled to some sym pathy. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has rushed to his defense. The so...

Best Form On August Oth the Standard of Giving and Oil Company declared a divi Recciving, dend of 8 per cent. This brings the dividends for this company for the year 1001 up to 40 per cent. It is estimated that the dividends for this year I "will reach 50 per cent. John D. Rockefeller's share in the dividend of August Cth'is said to have been $3,200,000. Hot long ago Mr. & Rockefeller said that the best form -'Of giving f "was tho payment of wages. It cannot be doubted that Mr. Rockefeller is fully con vinced that the best form of receiving is Stand ard Oil dividends. Neely Will The United States District Probably Attorney announces that ho Go Free. does not think that Neely, the republican politician charged with Cuban frauds, can be convicted. It has been discovered that there is no authority to require witnesses to go to Cuba to testify against Neely and tho witnesses decline to go. It will' be remembered that during the campaign it was repeatedly stated by republican politic...

Tin 8 The Commoner. Whether Common or Not. The Price. It Is your fault, your very great faultthe fruits of a bloody lust That tho smiting hand of an angry God has hum bled you in the dust. With strong-armed hosts and a greed for gain you have trampled on human rights; And like the bully you always were you whimper when God's hand smites. - Your island Is filled with widows' moans and . mothers weep bitter tears For the bleaching bones on the far-off veldt that .rot with the passing years. Yet bones still bleach and tears still flow, for your lust for gain Is strong, And your stiff-necked pride keeps your armies out to work a blood-stained wrong. It is your fault, your very great fault", yet you moan at the price you pay And add to tho rivers of tears that flow from mother eyes day by day. But still you tread in tho path of wrong, still fol low your plans to steal, And bog4 all the world for sympathy when tho smiting rod you feel. ; . But your awful crop of widows' weeds, your chorus...

- - 9 , 't Items of Interest. - At the equator tho snow lino is over 15,000 feet above sea level. . Chicago is the third largest German city and the third largest Bohemian city in the world. English residents haVo 111,000,000 pounds sterling invested in mortgages in foreign coun tries. The great Austrian violinist and musical genius, Kubelik, will make a tour of America during the coming winter. In tho one week ending August 6, the canner ies on the lower Puget Sound packed 265,100 cases of salmon, worth $1,272,800. Tho largest match factory in tho United States is located at Barberton, O., and has a capac ity of 100,000,000 matches per day. According to a special report from Ambassa dor White, Germany buys more products from America than from any other one nation. There were 280,000 native German-speaking people within the United States in 1801. Now there is more than that number in a single city of our country. In proportion to population there are fewer houses in Italy and Spain ...

i The Commoner. 10 Spelling by Ear. In the eighteenth century is was "trafflck," "musick," in the nineteenth ."traffic," "music." Why not in the twentieth traflc, miuzic? Why should 'not the spoken word be dictation for ' its spelling and the written or printed word indicate to the reader its correct pronunciation? It requires 25 iper . cent less labor and expense to composo and print traflc than it does to compose and print trafflck, and 14 per cent less than to compose and print traffic. Compo sition is to represent spoken words and this is only a labor question. The dovico that can 'bo jused with the least labor to most perfectly and systemati cally represent a spoken language is the bettor one. Words are composed of articulate sounds of the human voice and letters are symbols for such sounds. An ideal alphabet for a language is one that has a letter for each sound of the lan guage. If such an alphabet be so usod that the same letter shall in ev ery instance be a sign fop the sam...

The Commoner. ii Economy. Uncle Hiram (just back from the big city "I don't think, that nephew of our'n is got as much money as ho ake out he has." Aunt Emiiy "Why, I thought you mid he had such a nice home in the city." Uncle Hiram "Bub I didn't tell ye, nothin' about him havln' both them little girls o' his'n playln' on the same planner at once. I toll ye he's a-git-tin' hard up. San Francisco Chronicle. Shopping Hours. Two bills to regulate the hours of British shopmen and salesgirls are be fore parliament, while an amendment offered by Lord Salisbury himself foreshadows the probable tenor of a measure satisfactory to the cabinet. This amendment provides that "pro visional orders" fixing hours may be passed by local authorities, subject to revision, by parliament. This law will be the first step in Great Britain to regulate the hours of male adults, and will be closely scanned as a possible precedent. Of its necessity the report of- the lords' committeo permits no doubt. Says the...

L.V The Commoner. 13 A HISTORY OF THE PRtCiOUS METAIS From the Earliest Times to the Present; By Alex Del Mar. Second Ed., Complete in One YoL; pp. 511, 8vo. CLOTH AND GOLD, $3.W Tills li not a recension of the first edition (London, 1860), but an entlroly new work, constructed on an Improved plan bjr tbo same author. Tha following ar from tho presi noticos of the first edition: Abounds with -vivid description and practical knowledge London Athenaeum. Beple'to with information ; evinces much care and tudy. .London Academy. Shows the most conspicuous advunco beyond his prcaccosaera. Zoncion Saturday uevtew. A work of great woight and oleganco of stylo. London Economist. No such able and oxhaustivo work inco that of William Jacob. London Statist. Years ago Mr. Del Mnr gavo tb the public "A History of the Precious Motels" whicli has since become a standard work on the subject. In that work was traced the , advonturos of the Phoenicians, Romans, Spaniards, Cnliforninns and Australians t...

The Commoner rol. i. No. 32. Lincoln, Nebraska, August 30, 1001. $1.00 a Year "j 'Compromise is Impossible." In a recent issue of Tiie Commoner, rofor- rag to the steel strike, it was said "It is un- mbtedly the purpose of the trust to destroy gibor organizations, and the purpose will bo ro- mtlessly pursued if the time seems propitious." ?his statement obtains candid corroboration by 10 less an authority than Henry Clews, the rall Street banker. In his weekly letter, issued under date of fuly 20, Mr. Clews discusses the steel strike. r. Clews refers to this strike as the 'crucial conflict," and declares: - " "The strike against the steel corporation is the boldest challenge with which labor has ever ; confronted capital; and it would seem that the 'last thing that the trust can afford is to show any timidity or evince any disposition towards conces- t'slon to the present arbitrary demand, beyond the fair and liberal spirit already shown. Any spirit of conciliation shown by capital ...

The Commoner. of tlio great financiers; they breathe the poisoned air that has passed through the lungs of Wall Street. No financial policy is too cruel, no dollar too dear, no money system too despotic for them to cndorso; provided, always, it has the endorsement of the money changers. They not only want to make gold the only standard money, but they want to retire the greenbacks and substitute national bank notes. They often prate of their love of Jefferson, and yet they know that Jefferson was always and at all times the enemy of banks of issue. They conjure with the name of Jackson, and yet Jackson made his greatest reputation fight ing a bank of issue. If these papers had their way the democratic party would disregard en tirely the interests which tho masses have in a stable dollar, and would make tho party tho exponent of those whom Carlisle once described as the "idle holders of idle capital." . On the question of imperialism these papers do not entirely agree. The World stil...

through vigorous investigation while acting as attorney for the United States. Aside from the fact that Mr. Knox's sym pathies are naturally with the trust system, ho is greatly handicapped in the discharge of his duty toward the United States by reason of tho fact that everything which the United States Attorney General should know in his fight against tho trust Mr. Kndx knows and obtained in a confidential way. Is there an individual in tho United States who Would care to em ploy as his attorney amanwho had acted as attorney for an opponent, and aided that oppo nent in devising methods whereby this indi vidual could be wrongdd? It is impossible that Mr. Knox, having served as attorney for the trust in paving the way for the violation of the very laws which ho is now called upon toj enforce, should en force those laws as tho interests of the United States require. Mr. Knox is a great lawyer, otherwise tho trusts would not have employed him. But there are many other great lawyers in...

4 The Commoner. British Rule in India. Justice Brown in delivering the opinion of the court in the Downes case said: "Grave apprehensions of danger are felt by many eminent mena fear lest an unrestrained possession of power on the part of congress may lead to unjust and oppressive legislation, in which the natural rights of territories, or their inhabitants, may be engulfed in a centralized des potism. These fears, however, find no justifica tion' in the action of congress in the past century, nor in the conduct of the British parliament to ward its outlying possessions since the Ameri can revolution." It marks an epoch in American history when the highest court of the land uses the ex perience of England to support an attack on written constitutions. It is the most audac ious and unblushing surrender of fundamental principles which has occurred in this country. As Justice Brown invites us to consider and admire the conduct of an unrestrained parlia ment it may not ho out of place t...

KW 1 The Commoner. a sort of courage, when a convulsive burst of pop ular rag and despair warns tyrants not to pre sume too far on the patience of mankind. But against mlsgovernment such as then afflicted Ben gal, it is impossible to struggle. .The superior in telligence and energy of the dominent class made their power irresistible. A war of Bengalees against Englishmen was like a war of sheep against wolves, of men against demons "The strength of civilization . without its mercy!" ' The American people are capable of govern ing themselves, but what reason have we to believe that they can wisely administer the affairs of dis tant races? It is difficult enough to curb corpor ate power in this country, where the people who suffer have in their own hands the means of red ress; how much more difficult it would be to pro tect the interests of the people where the people who do the governing do not feel the suffering and .where the people who do 'the suffering must rely up6n the mercy of...

6 The Commoner. 1 If The Commoner, ISSUED WEEKLY. William J. Bryan. Editor and Proprietor. Ter Payable la Advance. Oae Yar Ji.oe fix Months ', 8e Three Months ; :.. .as UnglcCopy At Newitands or at this Office o Sample Copies Free. No Traveling Canvassers arc Employed. Subscriptions can be sent direct to The Com moner. They can also be sent through newspapers which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through precinct agents where such agents have been ap pointed. All remittances should be sent by postoffice order, express order or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps, or money. Advertising rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, ws second class mail matter. Doubtless the g. o. p. leaders referred to tlio full dinner pails of the gentlemen who con trol the output of steel. In the face of an industrial war the Repub licans of Ohio demand a campaign...

i m Fitzsimmons' Robert Fitzsimmons, the pu Good Advice. gilist, recently delivered a lec ture at Atlantic City on "The Youth of America." Mr. Fitzsimmons is not exactly a model for the youth of America, and yet he gave some good advice to young men. He said: "I never see a young man dissipating, hut I feel like taking him aside and telling him that ho U wasting his strength, squandering his power and inviting disappointment and suffering." No one is in a better position to know the evil effects of dissipation than the habitue of the prize ring. Even the prize fighters' suc cess depends upon abstinence from strong drink. Mr. Fitzsimmons knows whereof he speaks, and while the advice ho has given has been echoed and re-echoed through the ages, it will bear repetition in the presence of every young man who is subjected to the temptations that beset the pathway of. active life. Senator Bur- Commenting on the proposi ton's Little tion that the tariff be removed Joke. from trust products,...

mvwmmmjniK!,nmm'tim 8 The Commoner. 4. u H v t , ) I.-- v. Whether Common or Not. Hoping. I long for the day when tbo entire array Of vaudovillo singers will cease To flro at the throngs the tuneless "coon' songs," And give us a season of peace. I own I am weary and dreary and leary Of all of the hand-painted throng That ever id singing and ringing and dinging nt' The hated, detested "coon song." The rhymeless, infernal, Diurnal, eternal, Senseless and tuneless "coon song.- I earnestly pray for the glad, happy day . I'll get a Bweet, welcome stage shock N In the Fhape of the news that the stage is. to loss The weary and dreary "calr,o walk." ' . I own I am hurried and burrled and worried,. - And eager the vile fad to balk; ; x To banish, make vanish, compel to trot Spanish,. ' The .teams that put up the "cake -walk;".. The awfully dreary, Eternally dreary, Silly and foolish "cake walk." I am living in hope that the morn will soon "'ope ;" When It will be known as. a 'crime '..'';. ?...